CBR Bingo: Dough. As in “d’oh! This book drags” Nicole Trope’s The Family Across the Street is not a bad thriller, really, but Trope stretches out the plot to a glazed-eye degree. The premise is a family being held hostage by the father, who is enraged his wife wants to leave him. The chapters switch among POVs, including the father’s and his wife. But a lot of the chapters are devoted to others who “have a funny feeling” about what’s going on in the house, […]
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The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope